#Revisit Koyomi Araragi’s Adventures in Latest Monogatari Off and Monster Season Character PV Trailer

A new character PV trailer of Koyomi Araragi has been released for the upcoming Monogatari Off and Monster Season anime series. The series will begin streaming weekly in Japan on the ABEMA streaming service on July 6, 2024. 

The 1-minute trailer showcases the everyday life of Araragi with the girls he’s met in previous animated story arcs. 

Akiyuki Shinbo returns to serve as chief director for Monogatari Off and Monster Season, with Midori Yoshizawa (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 assistant director) as director, Akio Watanabe (returning) as character designer, Fuyashi To (returning) and Shinbo as series screenwriter, Hisaharu Iijima (returning) as art director, Yasuko Watanabe (Zoku Owarimonogatari) as color designer, Hiyori Hashimoto (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, RWBY Ice Queendom assistant compositing director) and Mizuho Ishikawa (Zom 100 compositing staff) as compositing directors. Shaft is handling the animation production for the series. 

Meanwhile, the main voice cast includes: 

• • Hiroshi Kamiya as Koyomi Araragi
• • Emiri Kato as Mayoi Hachikuji
• • Kana Hanazawa as Nadeko Sengoku
• • Saori Hayami as Yotsugi Ononoki
• • Yuka Iguchi as Tsukihi Araragi
• • Chiwa Saito as Hitagi Senjougahara
• • Kaori Mizuhashi as Ougi Oshino
• • Maaya Sakamoto as Shinobu Oshino
• • Marina Inoue as Sodachi Oikura
• • Miyuki Sawashiro as Suruga Kanbaru

Monogatari Off and Monster Season is the first new Monogatari Series anime since 2019’s Zoku Owarimonogatari, besides the Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp compilation film from January 2024. 

The series began with the Bakemonogatari anime in 2009 and was directed by Tatsuya Oishi, who also directed 2016 to 2017’s Kizumonogatari movie trilogy. The other previous Monogatari anime were directed by Tomoyuki Itamura (Call of the Night, The Case Study of Vanitas).

The Monogatari anime is based on the light novel series written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan. The Off-Season books contain several entries that include Orokamonogatari, Wazamonogatari, Nademonogatari, and Musubimonogatari. All were released from 2015 to 2017. 

The Monster Season titles consist of Shinobumonogatari, Yoimonogatari, Amarimonogatari, Ougimonogatari, and Shimonogatari Parts 1 and 2, which were released between 2017 to 2021. The Monogatari book series began with the release of Bakemonogatari Part 1 and 2 in 2006. 

Kodansha USA releases the Monogatari novels in English, which describes Bakemonogatari Part 1 as:

There’s a girl at their school who is always ill. She routinely arrives late, leaves early, or doesn’t show up at all, and skips gym as a matter of course. She’s pretty, and the boys take to whispering that ’s a cloistered princess. As the self-described worst loser in her class soon finds out, they just don’t know what a monster she is.

So begins a tale of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin yet deeply revealing of the human psyche, a set of case files as given to unexpected feeling as it is to irreverent humor.

Source: Nisio Isin Official Twitter